.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 342 203
Rank change year-on-year +111 -139 -59
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 799 370 992
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.84% 0.85% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.42% 4.57% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 741 326 825
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% -6.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,625 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.06% +12.61% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,766 8,095 14,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.30% 18.53% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,012 5,429 10,891
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,400 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +107 209 £57,500 +12.20% 50
North of England +46 178 £55,000 -8.33% 38
East of England +73 118 £60,000 +20.00% 24
Midlands +32 108 £55,000 -8.33% 19
London -115 100 £80,000 +3.23% 66
South West -14 81 £52,500 - 14
North East +7 75 £65,000 +33.33% 10
North West -12 64 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +4 62 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Midlands +14 46 £53,750 +2.38% 6
Yorkshire -18 39 £47,500 -20.83% 7
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.25%) IIS
3 7 (0.88%) CMS
3 7 (0.88%) Confluence
4 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.38%) DNN
5 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kentico
5 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 654 (81.85%) Azure
2 224 (28.04%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (19.52%) GitHub
4 139 (17.40%) AWS
5 138 (17.27%) GitHub Copilot
6 134 (16.77%) Azure AI
7 78 (9.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 46 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (5.63%) Power Platform
10 33 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (4.13%) Power Automate
11 29 (3.63%) PowerApps
12 28 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (3.00%) SaaS
14 23 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
15 22 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (2.75%) Serverless
16 20 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (2.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.76%) Internet
2 7 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (56.07%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (46.68%) MongoDB
3 154 (19.27%) Elasticsearch
4 152 (19.02%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.51%) Power BI
6 25 (3.13%) MySQL
7 24 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.50%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
10 11 (1.38%) Redis
11 8 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.88%) GIS
13 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.38%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 73 (9.14%) Git
2 15 (1.88%) JIRA
3 13 (1.63%) NUnit
4 10 (1.25%) GitLab
5 7 (0.88%) MSI
5 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 5 (0.63%) Snyk
8 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.38%) JUnit
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) MSTest
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 119 (14.89%) Finance
2 83 (10.39%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.13%) Advertising
4 44 (5.51%) Games
5 41 (5.13%) Marketing
6 35 (4.38%) Retail
7 33 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 22 (2.75%) Law
11 15 (1.88%) Banking
12 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.38%) Music Industry
14 10 (1.25%) Legal
15 8 (1.00%) Automotive
15 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.63%) Front Office
16 5 (0.63%) Local Government
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 671 (83.98%) Developer
2 528 (66.08%) .NET Developer
3 105 (13.14%) Senior
4 94 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 70 (8.76%) Senior Developer
6 63 (7.88%) C# Developer
7 58 (7.26%) Lead
8 47 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
9 41 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (4.51%) Lead Developer
11 35 (4.38%) Software Engineer
12 29 (3.63%) .NET Software Developer
13 23 (2.88%) Senior C# Developer
13 23 (2.88%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) C# Software Developer
15 19 (2.38%) Lead .NET Developer
16 17 (2.13%) .NET Software Engineer
16 17 (2.13%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 17 (2.13%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 799 (100.00%) .NET
2 521 (65.21%) ASP.NET
3 450 (56.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (29.66%) CSS
5 236 (29.54%) HTML
6 225 (28.16%) Entity Framework
7 217 (27.16%) Blazor
8 205 (25.66%) React
9 188 (23.53%) AngularJS
10 184 (23.03%) RESTful
11 172 (21.53%) ASP.NET Web API
12 171 (21.40%) Vue
13 159 (19.90%) Node.js
14 145 (18.15%) .NET Framework
15 134 (16.77%) ML.NET
16 108 (13.52%) LINQ
17 74 (9.26%) REST
18 45 (5.63%) JSON
19 37 (4.63%) WPF
20 28 (3.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.89%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (7.88%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 21 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.50%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.13%) iPhone
6 16 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.63%) Sports Betting
9 12 (1.50%) Social Network
10 11 (1.38%) BBC
10 11 (1.38%) Hedge funds
10 11 (1.38%) Social Media
11 10 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.88%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.75%) Windows
2 17 (2.13%) Android
3 4 (0.50%) Linux
3 4 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (65.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 421 (52.69%) Agile
3 273 (34.17%) CI/CD
3 273 (34.17%) DevOps
4 217 (27.16%) Microservices
5 167 (20.90%) AI
6 154 (19.27%) Machine Learning
7 146 (18.27%) Multithreading
8 102 (12.77%) Scrum
9 96 (12.02%) Software Engineering
10 89 (11.14%) OO
11 84 (10.51%) TDD
12 68 (8.51%) BDD
13 64 (8.01%) User Experience
14 63 (7.88%) Kanban
15 58 (7.26%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 58 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 52 (6.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 746 (93.37%) C#
2 520 (65.08%) SQL
3 260 (32.54%) JavaScript
4 212 (26.53%) TypeScript
5 31 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 28 (3.50%) Python
7 14 (1.75%) Java
7 14 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.88%) Bicep
9 6 (0.75%) Bash
9 6 (0.75%) VBA
10 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.50%) Ruby
10 4 (0.50%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.38%) Go
11 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.25%) C
12 2 (0.25%) Dart
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (8.26%) Degree
2 28 (3.50%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.50%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.38%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.38%) OCP
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.88%) QA
2 25 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.88%) NCSC
3 7 (0.88%) WCAG
4 4 (0.50%) GDPR
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) ITGC
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 195 (24.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 178 (22.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) Ansible
2 3 (0.38%) Grafana
2 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 528 (66.08%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.63%) Facebook
3 46 (5.76%) Google
4 21 (2.63%) YouTube
5 19 (2.38%) Adobe
6 11 (1.38%) Apple
6 11 (1.38%) Sony
6 11 (1.38%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.50%) Workday
9 3 (0.38%) Alterian
9 3 (0.38%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.38%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Sage
10 2 (0.25%) Veracode